China and the Roman Orient: Researches into their Ancient and Medieval Relations as represented in old Chinese Records (1885)
Ancient Porcelain: A Study in Chinese Mediœval Industry and Trade (1888)
Text-Book of Documentary Chinese (2 Bände, 1885-88)
Chinesische Studien, volume i (1890)
Die Lander des Islam nach Chinesischen Quellen (1895)
Ueber fremde Einflüsse in der chinesischen Kunst (1896)
China im Zeichen des Fortschrittes (Særtrykk fra: Deutsche Monatsschrift für das gesamte Leben der Gegenwart, Jg. 1902, s. 511-535) (Berlin: Duncker 1902)
Chinesische Ansichten über Bronzetrommeln (MSOS I,7) (Leipzig: Harrassowitz 1904)
Scraps from a Collector's Note-book, Being Notes on Some Chinese Painters of the Present Dynasty, with Appendices on Some Old Masters and Art Historians (1905)
Syllabary of Chinese sounds (1907)
The Ancient History of China (1908)
Mr. Kingsmill and the Hiung-nu (Særtrykk fra JAOS 30,1 (1909) 32-45) (Leipzig: Harrassowitz 1910)
(med William Woodville Rockhill) Chau Ju-kua: His work on the Chinese and Arab trade in the 12th and 13th centuries, entitled Chu-fan-chi. (Erstveröffentlichung in St. Petersburg 1911; Reprint Ch'eng-wen Publishing Taipeh 1967; reprinted 1977)
The Story of Chang K'ien, China's Pioneer in Western Asia: Text and Translation of Chapter 123 of Ssi-Ma Ts'ien's Shi-Ki (1917)
Native Sources for the History of Chinese Pictorial Art (1917)
The Ancient History of China. To the End of the Chou Dynasty. (1923)
Über ein chinesisches Konversations-Lexikon (=Zs.f.Bücherfreunde.9)